Jerilynn is a Puerto Rican writer from the Raritan Bayshore of New Jersey. After relocating to Philadelphia, she received her M.F.A. in Fiction from Temple University. She now resides in Oklahoma, pursuing her Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University.

She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Hedgebrook Writing Residency, and an AWP Intro Journals Award in Nonfiction. Her essays appear or are forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Salt Hill, Booth, Gulf Coast, and others. Her poetry and fiction appear in The Journal, Passages North, and elsewhere.

She is currently working on a memoir that deals with grief through the lens of Puerto Rican liberation.